September is the ninth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of four months with a length of 30 days. September in the Northern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent of March in the Southern Hemisphere. In the Northern hemisphere, the beginning of the meteorological autumn is on the 1st of September. In the Southern hemisphere, the beginning of the meteorological spring is on the 1st of September.
September symbols: The birthstone of September is the sapphire. The birth flowers for September are the forget-me-not, morning glory and aster. The zodiac signs for the month of September are Virgo (until September 21) and Libra (from September 22 onwards).
Historical Events for September, 1992
Day of Week 2nd » An 1992 Nicaragua earthquake e.g earthquake in Nicaragua kills at least 116 people.
Day of Week 6th » Hunters discover the emaciated body of Christopher McCandless at his camp convert 20 mi km west of the town of Healy, Alaska.
Day of Week 11th » Hurricane Iniki, one of the most damaging hurricanes in United States history, devastates the Hawaiian islands of Kauai and Oahu.
Day of Week 12th » NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour or Space Shuttle 'Endeavour' on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Jemison or Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly i
Day of Week 14th » The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declares the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be illegal.
Day of Week 16th » The trial of the deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega ends in the United States with a 40 year sentence for drug trafficking and money laundering.
16th » Black Wednesday: The pound sterling or pound is forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism by speculation e.g currency speculators and is forced to devalue against the German mark.
Day of Week 17th » An Iranian Kurdistan Iranian Kurdish leader and his two joiners are Mykonos restaurant assassinations assassinated by political militants in Berlin Berlin, Germany.
Day of Week 18th » An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labor dispute, killing nine replacement workers.
Day of Week 23rd » A large Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb destroys forensic laboratories in Belfast.
Day of Week 25th » NASA launches the 'Mars Observer', a $511 million probe to Mars, in the first U.S. mission to the planet in 17 years. Eleven months later, the probe would fail.
Day of Week 29th » Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello is impeachment e.g impeached.
14th » August Komendant, Estonian-American engineer (b. 1906)
14th » Paul Joseph James Martin, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Minister of Foreign Affairs (Canada) e.g Minister of Foreign Affairs for Canada (b. 1903)
16th » Millicent Fenwick, American journalist and politician (b. 1910)
17th » Roger Wagner, American conductor and educator (b. 1914)
18th » Mohammad Hidayatullah, Indian lawyer, judge, and politician, 6th Vice President of India (b. 1905)